[gobolinux-users] Re: Compiling Glibc 2.3.6

[Sean E. Russell]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:11, l l wrote:
> It is easy to upgrade glibc without *** from scratch,
> But IME, before or after upgrade,
> you need to compile some system software and applications with newer glibc.
> And you need RIP,
> http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

Wow.  This all sounds really painful for something that users are going to 
have to do occasionally.  Is there no way to build into the glibc recipe a 
mechanism for making sure that the user *isn't* left with an unusable system?

Am I the only one who thinks this is a fairly significant problem?

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